TY  - GEN
T1  - Reforming the world : the creation of America's moral empire
T2  - America in the world.
A1  - Tyrrell, Ian R.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn656359070
AB  - Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Ian Tyrrell describes the influence that the export of American values had back home, and explores the methods and networks used by reformers to fashion a global and nonterritorial empire. He follows the transnational American response to internal pressures, the European colonies, and dynamic changes in global society. Examining the cultural context of American expansionism from the 1870s to the 1920s, Tyrrell provides a new interpretation of Christian and evangelical missionary work, and he addresses America's use of "soft power." He describes evangelical reform's influence on American colonial and diplomatic policy, emphasizes the limits of that impact, and documents the often idiosyncratic personal histories, aspirations, and cultural heritage of moral reformers such as Margaret and Mary Leitch, Louis Klopsch, Clara Barton, and Ida Wells. The book illustrates that moral reform influenced the United States as much as it did the colonial and quasi-colonial peoples Americans came in contact with, and shaped the architecture of American dealings with the larger world of empires through to the era of Woodrow Wilson. Investigating the wide-reaching and diverse influence of evangelical reform movements, Reforming the World establishes how transnational organizing played a vital role in America's political and economic expansion.
OP  - 322
CN  - E183.7 .T97 2010eb
SN  - 9781400836635
SN  - 1400836638
SN  - 9781282639553
SN  - 1282639552
SN  - 9786612639555
SN  - 6612639555
SN  - 9780691145211
SN  - 0691145210
SN  - 9780691162010
SN  - 0691162018
KW  - Imperialism : Moral and ethical aspects : History.
KW  - Exceptionalism : United States : History.
KW  - Evangelicalism : Political aspects : United States : History.
KW  - Missionaries : United States : History.
KW  - Transnationalism : History.
KW  - United States : Foreign relations.
KW  - United States : Territorial expansion.
KW  - United States : Moral conditions.
KW  - United States : Foreign relations : Moral and ethical aspects.
KW  - Impérialisme : Aspect moral : Histoire.
KW  - Exceptionnalisme : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Évangélisme : Aspect politique : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Missionnaires : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Transnationalisme : Histoire.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations extérieures.
KW  - États-Unis : Expansion territoriale.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations extérieures : Aspect moral.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Ministry : Missions.
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Evangelicalism : Political aspects
KW  - Exceptionalism
KW  - Imperialism : Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Missionaries
KW  - Moral conditions
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - United States
KW  - dissertations.
KW  - History
KW  - Academic theses.
KW  - Thèses et écrits académiques.
ER  -